Grumpy Old St. Nicholas

[Polycarp]

…Lean your ear this way, there’s some bad theology going 'round today!"

Gene Edward Veith explores what the real St. Nicholas would consider important about Christmas: http://www.worldmag.com/displayarticle.cfm?id=11388

The point is, the original Santa Claus was someone who flew off the handle when he heard someone minimizing Christ. Perhaps we can battle our culture’s increasingly Christ-less Christmas by enlisting Santa in his original cause.

Department store Santas should ask the children on their laps if they have been good, what they want for Christmas, and whether they understand the Two Natures of Christ.

:smack:

[Captain_Amazing]

Well, he’s probably right. St. Nicholas would, I’d imagine, be upset by modern Christianity and modern society.

[FriarTed]

Poly, how is it that you read the WORLD magazine site, anyway? That’s more my style of right-wing C’nity (I’ve subbed to WORLD for years because the late Rev. David Chilton was a columnist).

I do hope you realize that Veith was being amuzingly facetious, and still made a darn good point. I’ve maintained for a few years that JWs dislike C’mas since Santa punched their main Church father. While none of us the severity of St Nick’s blow to Arius, I totally think a symbolic love-tap to heretics & PC-extremists is quite fitting- and also to the outrage-merchants who make us right-wing C’tians look like complete jerks (Bill Donohue, Pat Robertson, Bill O’Reilly & Jerry Falwell, please call your offices…)

[Sampiro]

And just to be authentic he should speak to the kids only in 3rd century Byzantine Greek and burn any books that mention a differing opinion of the divine nature (sorry Anne Rice, but that Christmas release Out of Egypt has gotta burn now).